Male celebs who marry rich

But now, more male artistes are hooking up with rich partners of their own. Here's a look at some Asian actors dating wealthy women.

STEPHEN CHOW
The girlfriend of the "King of Comedy" is Yu Wenfeng, youngest daughter of Yu Jingbo, founder of Kumagai Gumi, a construction firm in Hong Kong.

She is said to have HK$300 million (S$52.8 million) worth of assets. Despite her privileged upbringing, Yu is modest and shuns the limelight, preferring to be the woman behind her man.

ANDY LAU
Everyone knows that Carol Chu, the wife of this Heavenly King, is from one of Penang's richest families which owns a business with an annual turnover of HK$20 billion.

CHOW YUN FATT
Chow's wife Jasmine Tan has good business acumen and has managed his career well.

Chow's father-in-law is Singaporean tycoon Jack Tan and his transition from Hong Kong movie star to international star was in no small part due to his wife's planning and financial support.

RAY LUI
Lui made his showbiz comeback last year in TVB drama Born Rich. And silently supporting him is his wealthy wife, Yang Xiaojuan.

Born into a rich family, Yang is a former president of the Shenzhen General Chamber of Commerce and is considered to be a very capable businesswoman.

With Yang's financial backing, Lui has risen from being a bankrupt star to the boss of a listed company.

VANNESS WU
After the handsome Taiwanese- American actor-singer broke off with Vivian Hsu, he got together with Arissa Cheo, said to be of Singaporean of Chinese-Indonesian descent and who comes from a well-to-do family.

Arissa, 19, tried to break into showbiz in Taiwan, acting in idol drama Kiss of the Toast 2.

She never became a star, but when she returned to Taiwan to appear in Vanness's music video, My Kingdom, the two began a romance.

this post reminds me of kevin federline who prior to hooking up with a teen idol and ditching her was no more then a backup dancer. now after leaving, suing and ruining spears life, he is a crazy rich celeb.......the luck of some ppl boggles the mind

this post reminds me of kevin federline who prior to hooking up with a teen idol and ditching her was no more then a backup dancer. now after leaving, suing and ruining spears life, he is a crazy rich celeb.......the luck of some ppl boggles the mind

I thought Spears ruined her own life.

KFed certainly didn't get her to drive with the kid in front of her and all that crap. She had her choices... she took them, and a number of them just happened to be the wrong ones.

exactly, and all the male calebs who got hooked up with rich women, none of it grab headlines.

So the oppostie is true. when females marry rich men...we will be thinking GOLDDIGGERGOLDDIGGER

but all these male celebs? why isn't there a bunch of flaming posts on forums, more sleezy papers making speculations??

obviously women who marry the rich gets more attention.

Hmm... the guys do get attention, but not as much as the women. The light will be about the same. Usually got insinuation of "eating soft rice", scared of the wife, and all that. And yah, that constant highlight of the wife being rich.

It's an ongoing war against the rich and those who dare get married with them waged by the sourgrapes.

many years

I read Andy Lau dated his girlfriend many years before marrying her and even so, it was supposed to be at the request of her father. Didn't even read anywhere about their wedding. Money did not speed things up for them.

Her father's business is worth 7 or 8 billion Malaysian? I don't think there are PLCs in Malaysia that big. What's it called?

A lot of these men are already financially well-off themselves (Stephen Chow, Andy Lau) so I don't really think they'd marry with the intention of getting rich. Then again, more money never hurts.

i thought stephen owns alot of commercial property in hk valued 1bHKD...anyway good luck to him since a majority of us probably grew up watchin his movies and seen how he was a nobody actor to a star in his own genre....

Lawrence Ng had married a Thai heiress for a few years after he left TVB and then divorced and returned to film in Hong Kong. His second wife is from a common family. But I'm not so sure about Lawrence's own background. He studied overseas during the 70's so his family would have been financially good (if not above average) sicne it costed heaps to send children abroad in those days.

I agree with the others. Andy and Stephen were loaded when the dated their rich girlfriends.

I know that Michael Tao is rumoured to be dating the daughter of a chinese official. Donnie Yen's wife is also quite well-off (jewellery business I think) and super-talented. Rumours are that Raymond Wong Ho Yin's wife is also rich.

I don't really think that having a rich spouse means depending on themselves. As long as they aren't gold-diggers, I'm fine with them.

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